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RESIDENTS in a rural Radnorshire village are raging over the “brutal” tree-felling programme which they say is ruining the local landscape and endangering wildlife. People living in and near the village of Dolau were left angry and stunned last week when maple, oak, ash and sycamore trees – some more than 100-years-old – were suddenly chopped down as part of a “resilience cutting” by Western Power. The electricity distribution network operator said the tree-felling was part of a programme to “improve the electricity network performance under abnormal weather conditions” that Powys has been experiencing in recent weeks. But locals are far from happy and have called a public meeting later this week. They say many of the trees are in leaf and are being scythed down during peak nesting time for local birds; that they act to maintain a river bank on a flood plain and that Western Power’s policy “makes a mockery” of any protection for the environment ....